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An oil portrait of a blonde young girl with blue eyes carrying a book in her proper right hand.…
A Student of Poe
An oil portrait of a blonde young girl with blue eyes carrying a book in her proper right hand.…
An oil portrait of a blonde young girl with blue eyes carrying a book in her proper right hand. The girl is wearing a red coat over her shoulders with a yellow and blue striped collared shirt tucked into a blue horizontal striped skirt. In the background are pink stylized flowers and pine trees.
A Student of Poe, Pliny McConnell, c. 1944, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © Estate of Pliny McConnell.

A Student of Poe

Artist (American, 1890 - 1968)
Datec. 1944
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1945.1
On View
Not on view
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